Home ground advantage leads Pollock to victory

Kopong 200 PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Kopong 200 PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

KOPONG: Robert Pollock emerged as the overall winner of the seventh round of the Botswana Motor Sport (BMS) National Off Road Championship, dubbed Kopong 200, on Saturday. Wilkinson finished second, while Taye Perry was third. Zayd Noble won the quad bikes section.

Racing in his home village, Pollock won the tightly contested OR1 category, as Perry came in second while Mohamed Jones finished third. In a terrain stretching 200km, riders were taken of their usual sandy terrain as they had to deal with rocky, hard-pack. Pollock said that home ground advantage worked on his favour on the afternoon as he targets a podium finish at the end of the season.

"I am very happy. This one goes out to the people of Kopong. It was nice and tight, but it favored smaller bikes whilst the bigger bikes struggled. But at the end of the day we made use of what we could. I missed a lot of races of but intention is to win the championship. I will see how it goes in the last rounds," he said.

Editor's Comment
Congratulations Anicia Gaothuse!

The contest had 10 beautiful young girls as finalists and unfortunately only one could wear the crown.The judges picked Anicia Gaothuse. To all those who feel their contestant should have won ahead of Anicia for whatever reason, hardly; the judges found Anicia to be the best among the best, so desist from disrespecting our newly crowned queen on social media or anywhere else, for that matter! Each of the 10 beautiful young women had supporters...

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